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R.Quinn

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6. I don't dispute that Bush fanned these flames

Reply to samsingh (Reply #5)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 05:16 PM

Oct 2014

but can you explain why you think they threaten us when they aren't right here in the U.S.?

We are a bankrupt nation and we really can't afford to go fight them over there, to say nothing of spending precious American lives.

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